LG is going to introduce its next flagship smartphone next month

LG
Electronics President Cho Jun-Ho at the announcement of the V20
last year.Kim
Hong-Ji/Reuters

LG is going to introduce the next version of its V-series
smartphones at IFA later next month, as confirmed in an
invitation sent to media outlets (which we saw
via The Verge).

The event will take place in Berlin on August 31, where LG will
unveil the follow-up to 2016's V20.

The image in the invitation doesn't say much, apart from the
usual "save the date" and the presence of a glowing "V" in what
would be the phone's wallpaper.

The
invitation image shows the outline of a phone with rounded
corners and a visible "V" in the wallpaper.LG

The only two notable tidbits are the use of black colour in the
"wallpaper" and the rounded corners, which might suggest a move
to OLED displays — first reported by Korean
outlet ET News — and a more rounded design respectively.

The curvier design would line up with previous rumours, too, such
as a
recent one from MySmartPrice and notable leaker Steve
Hemmerstoffer, which published a video that shows how the
finalised device might look like.